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If you have a Hammer-produced stone-age movie with dinosaurs by Ray Harryhausen starring Raquel Welch
in a fur bikini, you pretty much know what to expect - & this movie
does deliver !
Tumak, an outcast of the barbaric rock people, finds refuge with
Raquel's more civilized & technically advanced tribe, the shell
people, where he has a great fight with a dinosaur (& wins, of
course). Soon though, he is cast out again for being too barbaric &
returns to the rock people with Welch, where his evil brother (Percy
Herbert) tries to gain leadership from his father. When a volcano breaks
out, though, both the rock people & the shell people are largely
decimated & join forces to survive under Tumak's leadership.
If you are looking for (pre-)historical accuracy here, you might just
be in the wrong picture, this being a Hammer-produced stone-age movie
with dinosaurs by Ray Harryhausen starring Raquel Welch in a fur bikini,
but if you want a fun ride about dinosaurs & Raquel Welch
(inexplicably blond in this movie) in a fur bikini with some of
Harryhausen's best stop motion-effects (which in many scenes interact
with the real actors quite convincingly), look no further. For some
scenes though, real life iguanas & spiders were used instead of
stop-motion.
A remake of One Million B.C. (1940) by Hal Roach (who was also
executive producer of this one) & Hal Roach jr. |